This is a response to the page on Seaslugs, since personally I prefer Seaplanes...... Seaslugs here... I love seaplanes as well! I very much wish to get my pilots license and a pontoon plane :) Who are you Seaslugs - Mark here. This is the country for seaplanes, maybe not NB though, although I have seen a few seaplanes fly over St Andrews, but think they are probably Maine based. I am Amanda This was my baby in Scotland, a Cessna A185F, 300hp, 4 seater - the SUV of seaplanes (if you can't afford a Beaver, which I couldn't!) This is Loch Voil, just stopped for a cup of tea at the local pub/hotel, Monachyle Mhor, with some very fine food in the evenings, if you are ever in the Trossachs...
This is my favourite seaplane - didn't work very well, but very innovative comes up on hydrofoils driven by tail prop, then gearbox switches drive to aircraft propeller. Gearbox leaked, among other problems....the devil is in the detail?!PC& seaplane
Here is a picture of me (sitting) and my fellow rocket engineer Richard Varvill (he designs very cool rockets at http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/ and is alround one of the most knowledgable and nicest blokes you could ever meet) just before we set off to fly her back from Finland to Scotland, a Boys Own adventure if ever there was one....
Here is the story of our adventure (lots of doing words with some more pictures, not quite as exciting as the excellent "How to be a badass" movie clip, but it felt somewhat the same at times from the left hand seat.... :0)
Seaslugs here... I love seaplanes as well! I very much wish to get my pilots license and a pontoon plane :)
Who are you Seaslugs - Mark here. This is the country for seaplanes, maybe not NB though, although I have seen a few seaplanes fly over St Andrews, but think they are probably Maine based.
I am Amanda
This was my baby in Scotland, a Cessna A185F, 300hp, 4 seater - the SUV of seaplanes (if you can't afford a Beaver, which I couldn't!)
This is Loch Voil, just stopped for a cup of tea at the local pub/hotel, Monachyle Mhor, with some very fine food in the evenings, if you are ever in the Trossachs...
This is my favourite seaplane - didn't work very well, but very innovative comes up on hydrofoils driven by tail prop, then gearbox switches drive to aircraft propeller. Gearbox leaked, among other problems....the devil is in the detail?!PC& seaplane
Here is a picture of me (sitting) and my fellow rocket engineer Richard Varvill (he designs very cool rockets at
http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/ and is alround one of the most knowledgable and nicest blokes you could ever meet) just before we set off to fly her back from Finland to Scotland, a Boys Own adventure if ever there was one....
Here is the story of our adventure (lots of doing words with some more pictures, not quite as exciting as the excellent "How to be a badass" movie clip, but it felt somewhat the same at times from the left hand seat.... :0)